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Jurors will take another day to decide if a Brampton trucker planned to kill and burn his wife or reacted spontaneously to learning of her infidelity.

Just after 8 p.m. Superior Court Justice Bruce Thomas sent jurors to a hotel after approximately eight hours of deliberation brought no verdict.

Many jurors nodded in agreement with Thomas's suggestion it was time for a rest.

"Fresh minds and carry on" said Thomas to the jurors.

They will be sequestered for the evening and returned to the jury room Friday morning.

They must determine if Sukhchain Singh Brar, 52, killed Gurpreet Brar, 37, Jan. 31, 2016 after losing control when she told him he was not the father of their youngest child or if he planned her death.

The Crown has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt Brar had planned to kill her for a first-degree murder conviction.

In his instructions to the jury Thomas said a plan does not have to be complicated or sensible.

The defence contends Brar lacked the intention to kill her and is therefore guilty of manslaughter which has a minimum penalty of five years in prison.

First-degree murder brings life in prison with no parole eligibility for 25 years.

Both Brars were licensed truckers traveling in a truck on Highway 402 near Sarnia on Jan. 31.

Thomas outlined the Crown and defence cases to jurors before sending them to the jury room early Thursday afternoon.

Thomas told jurors they must be sure if their verdict is guilty. The Crown must satisfy them beyond a reasonable doubt which is closer to absolute certainty than a balance of probabilities.

But Thomas also said it was nearly impossible to prove something to an absolute certainty.

The Crown contends Brar intended to kill her when he hit her four times in the head with a hammer while she was sleeping in the parked truck.

Then Brar set fire to the truck to conceal her head injuries using gas he had placed in two red fuel containers before leaving on the trip.

A medical expert has testified the woman died of head injuries and smoke inhalation.

The defence contends Brar did not know of the affair until his wife told him just before she grabbed his neck while they were at a truck stop in the early morning.

That unhinged him and he killed her due to the sudden provocation making manslaughter the correct verdict, according to defence lawyer Brennan Smart.

Assistant Crown attorney Melanie Nancekievill told jurors during her closing submission Brar lied to them, just as he had lied to police officers at the scene about what happened inside the truck.

Brar had testified through a Punjabi interpreter that he lied to police officers at the scene to save himself.

At the trial’s outset last month, Brar tried to plead guilty to manslaughter, but the Crown rejected his plea to the lesser offence.